In article <67C32DB4-E5CF-4042-9F10-50C3AF072919@xxxxxxxxxx> you write: > >> On Aug 24, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I think the problem is that many people would like to suck the archives back >> in bulk, and they see IMAP as too chatty. > >I don't think that's a valid argument. We have mbox-ish archives available via wget and rsync, and have for many years. It is my impression that they are maintained automatically and are not going away. So if you want to do bulk fetches via IMAP, that's fine, but anyone who wants to do it with rsync will continue to do so. I did, took a while but I got lots and lots of files of messages, and it had the advantage of being a one-line command, no new programming needed. R's, John